Hello, I've installed Puppy Linux 4.2.1 on an old notebook (compaq armada e500). It works well but I'm not able to connect to the internet. The pcmcia card's model is: superlan by roper pcmcia 100-32 bit. I've installed the module by ndiswrapper and wlan0 is correctly found and configurated (dhcp), but browser doesn't work. If I type ifconfig the last message for wlan0 is Interrupt:11. If I try to ping I've got the following message: Network is unreachable. Have you got any ideas? Thank you. Bye

Having flicked around on Google, i came across a couple of posts from Suse and another distro. They seemed to think it is the driver. I dont know what chipset is in the card. any clues as to what the chipset is, i am assuming that Puppy doenst pick it up without NDISWRAPPER

First, thank you for your reply. I think is the driver because I've tried to install puppy linux on another old laptop (geo) and internet works well. I haven't written that the pcmcia card is not wireless but ethernet. Do you think that it works if I try to install the driver listed in the web site?

ndiswrapper doesn't work very well with ethernet devices, and it's more likely that one of Puppy's native Linux drivers will work better anyway.
It would help if you could positively identify the exact model of your PCMCIA card, since this will determine the correct Linux driver. Please run this command -

Code:

pccardctl status

If this looks OK, run this command -

Code:

pccardctl ident

and report the Product/Device ID and Vendor ID values.Last edited by tempestuous on Tue 09 Jun 2009, 03:43; edited 1 time in total

Clearly there's a problem with your PCMCIA interface, and yours is currently one of three problems on the forum concerning PCMCIA interfaces.
I have a suspicion that the fault may be with 4.2.1, but I'm really not sure, and I don't have a copy of 4.2.1 to check.

I've tried with "pci=biosirq" but....nothing to do! When I reboot the pc it doesn't keep the interface wlan0 loaded by ndiswrapper (i've saved it) and interface eth0 is loaded again. Have you got other ideas? Thank you very much.

you need to start another thread of your own on this subject. Mixing up two different problems in the same thread will only cause confusion._________________Want to report a bug or problem? Have a read of this first ...

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